Presidential Elections Act, 1993
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Ruling on nominations. |
20.—(1) At 12 noon on the last day for receiving nominations at a presidential election, the presidential returning officer shall attend at the place appointed in that behalf by the presidential election order and shall there and then do the following things: | |
(a) produce all the nomination papers delivered in accordance with section 14 purporting to nominate a person to be a candidate at the election, | ||
(b) examine all such papers in the order in which they were received, | ||
(c) rule that a nomination paper is invalid if, in his opinion, it is not properly made out and signed or is invalid under section 14 (5) or 16 (7) or relates to a person whose nomination to be a candidate at the election he has ruled to be invalid under section 22 or 26 and write the word “invalid” on the nomination paper, | ||
(d) rule that a nomination paper stands withdrawn if it purports to nominate as a candidate at the election a person in respect of whom he has received a notice of withdrawal under section 30 or who is deemed to have withdrawn under section 31 (1) and write the word “withdrawn” on the nomination paper, | ||
(e) examine each nomination paper which he has not ruled to be invalid or to stand withdrawn under this subsection and delete therefrom any signature which in accordance with section 15 (4) is to be disregarded, | ||
(f) ascertain from the nomination papers not ruled to be invalid or to stand withdrawn under this subsection the persons who are nominated in accordance with law to be candidates at the election and declare each such person to stand nominated as a candidate at the election, | ||
(g) if only one person is so declared as aforesaid, declare the person to have been elected to be the President and send to the Taoiseach and publish in Iris Oifigiúil a certificate in the prescribed form of such election of such person and comply with the provisions of section 56 (2), | ||
(h) if 2 or more persons are so declared as aforesaid, adjourn the election for the purpose of taking a poll in accordance with this Act. | ||
(2) The proceedings under this section are referred to in this Act as “the ruling on nominations”. |